Open AccessOwner-managed closed it companies in croatia
Author(s) -
Jasmina Mutabžija
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
zbornik pravnog fakulteta sveučilišta u rijeci/zbornik pravnog fakulteta sveučilišta u rijeci
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1846-8314
pISSN - 1330-349X
DOI - 10.30925/zpfsr.39.4.9
Subject(s) - intellectual property , business , corporate governance , revenue , relation (database) , software , industrial organization , knowledge management , law and economics , commerce , accounting , finance , law , computer science , database , economics , political science , programming language
Intellectual property protection is an important ingredient in themarket success of knowledge-intensive enterprises operating in the informationtechnology industry. The governance and the extent of protection ofintellectual property related to software often seem to be connected to certaincharacteristics of an enterprise, such as its type and size. By analyzing thepublicly available data, the author identifies various patterns primarilyconcerning the structure of ownership and management of the softwareenterprises in Croatia. The analysis reveals that all of the top 500 software enterprises according to revenue areclosed, with the overwhelming majority being owner-managed and small ormicro-sized. This would suggest that most software enterprises in Croatia arepassive when it comes to their intellectual property. In relation to this, theauthor describes three profiles of enterprises depending on their attitudetowards the governance of intellectual property. The author also formulates andexplores four possible complementary approaches to the protection ofintellectual property,both legal and non-legal, in addition to discussing various types ofintellectual property rights with the aim of identifying those that are moresuitable for the protection of different types of software.